What’s Wrong With This Picture?

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• 	GS650G February 19th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
  1989-2008 Chrysler fails to make vehicles people want, vehicles with decent resale value, vehicles that are worthy of their hard earned dollars.
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• 	creamy February 19th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
  i think what is wrong with that picture is me. i read “Kerkorian” as “Kevorkian”. interesting how the mind just naturally puts chrysler together with a guy who champions a terminal patient’s right to die.
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• 	aggrazel February 19th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
  The phrase “shriveled under Schrempp” should never be uttered in polite conversation.
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• 	TonyJZX February 19th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
  the last two recent events are completely oblivious to reality
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• 	ajla February 19th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
  Wasn’t Chrysler the last domestic auto manufacturer that managed to make an actual profit? If so, I’d probably put that in the timeline somewhere.
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• 	jpcavanaugh February 19th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
  Iacocca. He brought in enough good management to save the company, but traded its engineering heritage for one based on marketing. Also, the company should have let Kerkorian buy it and Jerry York run it. Instead, Eaton (from, drum roll, please, GM) sold out to Daimler. And Cerberus had a plan to rescue Chrysler?
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• 	maniceightball February 19th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
  You’re missing the huge glaring bit of unreality: what turnaround?
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• 	AuricTech February 19th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
  Does Daimler count as an “outside event”?
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• 	Runfromcheney February 19th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
  GS650G : Lest you forget that while Lutz was in charge, Chrysler was a lean machine that built nothing but acclaimed, class-leading automobiles. They were a powerhouse. I would put this timelime at about 94-2002. (Even after Lutz jumped ship, they still built plenty of good cars.) It is odd, I don’t know what year to pinpoint when Chrysler jumped the shark, because they had a few winners during the Daimler years, but I think I will pinpoint it when they killed the Stratus. As for the last point in the timeline, WTF? Machonne hasn’t done jack shit. I don’t even know if Fiat has offically even became a stakeholder in Chrysler yet. EDIT: I mean that Machonne hasn’t done jack shit to Chrysler. I know plenty about how he turned around Fiat. From what I know he is a good CEO.
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• 	windswords February 19th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
  GS650G, Were you out of the country between 1992-1998? Chrysler cars were way better those years than previous years and since then. Even after 1998 it took time for Nickel & Daimler to destroy there product development.
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• 	CommanderFish February 20th, 2009 at 2:02 am
  Guys, you’re missing a crucial thing about 90’s Chryslers: The cost cutting on them was so terrible that they would be released to great praise and then absolutely fall off the map when people started figuring out they were qualitative nightmares. Sludging 2.7L V6’s in the LH cars, fragile head gaskets on Neons and Cloud Cars, the early days of any car with the Ultradrive transmission (the minivans were hit especially hard with this one, if it wasn’t for that screwup you’d probably be asking what the Odyssey and Sienna even were). I know these things first hand. My mother used to have a ’98 Grand Voyager that a couple years had strut towers that rusted prematurely. I personally have a ’98 Breeze that still runs well, but the interior has taken a beating. Peeling paint, squeaks, rattles, buzzes, the works. Great designs with crappy execution. Now, they have the exact opposite, with cars like the infamous Sebring. Godawful designs, but everything is now put together much better. This gets looked over due to subpar interior materials and questionable exterior designs, but let it be known that the Sebring has one of the quietest cabins of any family sedan. Ugly and quiet… Good place to take a nap? :P
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• 	Axel February 20th, 2009 at 9:15 am
  Ugly and quiet… Good place to take a nap? :P When you’re asleep, your Motel 6 room looks exactly the same as “one of them fancy hotel chains.”
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